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7582825 |
Method and apparatus for keyboard instrument learning
A method and apparatus for keyboard instrument learning are disclosed. The learning device comprises: a data access/storage device, for storing musical compositions and fingerings; an image signal...
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7504577 |
Music instrument system and methods
A system and methods which allow even a novice performer to easily play music which is not disharmonious and which is pleasing to the performer and his or her audience. The music is preferably...
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7501570 |
Electric wind instrument and key detection structure thereof
Wind instrument includes a tubular body having a plurality of tone holes, and a plurality of keys capable of opening and closing the tone holes. Via a retaining member, detector units are provided...
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7491880 |
Sound control apparatus for a keyboard-based musical instrument
A sound control apparatus for a keyboard-based musical instrument for avoiding a touch of a shutter to a back check, thereby appropriately setting a sound generation timing and maintaining a...
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7432430 |
Musical instrument, music data producer incorporated therein and method for exactly discriminating hammer motion
In an automatic player piano, hammer sensors monitor associated hammers so as to report current positions on the hammer trajectories, and a data processor analyzes the hammer motion for producing...
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7432431 |
Speed detecting apparatus for keyboard musical instrument
A speed detecting apparatus for a keyboard musical instrument is provided for accurately detecting the speed of bivotal movements of a hammer and a key even if a shutter implies errors in its...
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7339105 |
Automatic musical performance device
Provide an automatic musical performance device, which is capable of giving a concert magic function in an acoustic instrument with a feeling of normally playing the acoustic instrument. A time...
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7297864 |
Image signal generating apparatus, an image signal generating program and an image signal generating method
The automatic musical instrument contains a main body provided with a sliding saddle member and a sliding operation piece. The sliding operation piece is provided with a reflecting pattern...
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7285715 |
Velocity estimator for manipulators and musical instrument using the same
An automatic player piano is a combination between an acoustic piano and an electronic system serving as a recorder and an automatic player; while a user is fingering a piece of music on the...
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7135637 |
Apparatus and method for detecting performer's motion to interactively control performance of music or the like
Performance interface system includes a motion detector provided for movement with a performer, and a control system for receiving detection data transmitted from the motion detector and...
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7132643 |
Optical transducer having optical modulator in the vicinity of rotational axis of moving object and musical instrument using the same
An optical transducer includes a photo-electric converter supported by a shank flange rail and optical modulators respectively attached to hammers of an automatic player piano; since a neck portion...
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7071404 |
Laser activated synthesizer system
A laser activated synthesizer system for efficiently translating finger positions on a surface into sounds. The laser activated synthesizer system includes a housing member which encloses a...
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7049576 |
Keyboard musical instrument having easily installable optical position transducer with coupler for coupling optical modulator to moving object
An optical position transducer is provided for each of the black/white keys incorporated in a composite keyboard musical instrument; the optical position transducer includes a photo-coupler...
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6940005 |
Keyboard musical instrument for exactly producing tones and hammer sensor varying output signal exactly representing physical quantity of hammer
A hammer sensor includes a photo-filter plate movable together with a hammer assembly and having a base plate fixed to the hammer shank and an arc pattern formed on the base plate and different in...
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6933435 |
Easily installable optical position transducer and keyboard musical instrument having the same
An optical position transducer is provided for each of the black/white keys incorporated in a composite keyboard musical instrument; the optical position transducer includes a photo-coupler...
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6870151 |
Shutter, optical sensor system using the same and shutter holder incorporated therein
A shutter holder has a frame-like base portion and a tie plate inwardly projecting from a side portion of the base portion in a cantilever fashion, and the tie plate has a rectangular cross section...
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6794568 |
Device for detecting musical gestures using collimated light
A musical apparatus that outputs a musical control signal modulated in real-time by the interruption of laser beams in an operational space. These interruptions of laser beams are transduced by...
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6713751 |
Easily assembled optical fiber sensor and musical instrument using the same
An array of optical fiber sensors is installed in an automatic player piano for monitoring the hammers, and a data processing system produces music data codes through the analysis on the current...
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6501012 |
Musical apparatus using multiple light beams to control musical tone signals
A musical apparatus which controls a variety of parameters of musical tones by detecting motion of an object in a space adjacent to the musical apparatus. More specifically, the musical apparatus...
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6489550 |
Musical apparatus detecting maximum values and/or peak values of reflected light beams to control musical functions
A musical apparatus which outputs music under the control of various musical control instructions where the desired musical control instructions are reliably determined by the movement of an object...
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6479742 |
Audio system in electronic musical instrument
The present invention provides an audio system in an electronic musical instrument which can determine the characteristics of a reproduced sound automatically or simply for matching with the...
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6420642 |
Automatic player incorporated in keyboard musical instrument and plunger sensor for detecting motion of plunger
An automatic player is combined with an acoustic piano for selectively moving black/white keys with plungers of solenoid-operated key actuators, and plunger sensors detect current positions of the...
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6403872 |
Keyboard musical instrument faithfully reproducing original performance without complicated tuning and music data generating system incorporated therein
An automatic player piano is an acoustic piano equipped with a data acquisition system and a playback system, and the data acquisition system monitors the hammers with hammer sensors for producing...
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6229081 |
Keyboard musical instrument, position sensing device and light-emitting controller both incorporated therein
An automatic player piano is equipped with a position detecting device for detecting current positions of the black/white keys, and the position detecting device radiates light beams across the...
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6184452 |
Tuning of musical instruments
An electric guitar has an electromagnetic resonating unit (3) which is arranged to resonate the strings (2) of the guitar, either individually or together. The resonance of each string is picked up...
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5922984 |
Electrical simulator of a plectrum instrument
An electrical simulator of a plectrum instrument, including: a microprocessor (3) which is suitable to convert a chord set up on a keyboard (13), received by means of a standardized signal, into a...
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5913260 |
System and method for detecting deformation of a membrane
A system and method for detecting, measuring the intensity of, and determining the location of a deformation of a membrane. In one embodiment, the intensity and location of membrane deformations is...
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5909028 |
Position transducer and positional information processing system using the same
A non-contact type position transducer has a light emitting block for splitting a light beam into two light sub-beams and a light detecting block for receiving one of the light sub-beams and...
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5880393 |
Keyboard musical instrument and recorder/playback controller incorporated therein
An acoustic piano, solenoid-operated key actuators for moving black/white keys in response to a driving signal and an electric system form in combination a keyboard musical instrument, and the...
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5811709 |
Acoustic drum with electronic trigger sensor
An acoustic drum capable of triggering an electronic sound source is provided by a combination of a drum body shell, conventional drum heads held at adjustable tension across open ends of the...
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5543580 |
Tone synthesizer
A tone synthesizer, for brass instruments, is equipped with a performance information input device such as a mouthpiece having a contact area sensor for detecting the contact area of the lips, a...
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5475214 |
Musical sound effects controller having a radiated emission space
Movement of a musical instrument in space is employed to modulate its sound output. An electro-optical controller is used to detect the elevation of the instrument relative to the floor and, in...
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5237126 |
Optoelectric transducer system for stringed instruments
A pick-up apparatus for a string instrument comprising an array of supports for positioning an array of detectors, each of which monitors strings' vibrations and generates electrical signals, each...
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5231488 |
System for displaying and reading patterns displayed on a display unit
A system to transfer information from a video screen. A sensor embedded in a suction cup detects an increase in intensity of a synchronizing scan line and an increase in intensity of a data scan...
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5231283 |
Opto-electronic sensing method and device for an acoustic piano
A new, inexpensive and unobtrusive opto-electronic sensor which requires no manual adjustments after installation under the keys of the piano keyboard. Post-installation manual adjustments are...
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5214232 |
Electric stringed musical instrument equipped with detector optically detecting string vibrations
An electric guitar has a plurality of strings stretched over a rigid body and a neck, and a vibration detecting unit embedded into the rigid body, and the vibration detecting unit has a plurality...
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5206449 |
Omniplanar pickup for musical instruments
A pickup responsive in all planes of vibration of a vibrating element of a musical instrument uses two transducers, each maximally responsive in a different plane of vibration. The transducer...
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5192820 |
Musical instrument keyboard striking force sensor
A key striking force sensor suitable for player pianos. This sensor contains a displacement sensor for measuring displacement between the displacement sensor itself and a catcher which rocks...
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5189240 |
Breath controller for musical instruments
A breath controller for musical instruments includes a mouth piece for blowing the air into an air chamber. Blowing the air makes an air pressure increase in the air chamber, thus an elastic member...
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5164532 |
Performance state detecting unit of player piano system
The player piano provides a string-striking mechanism including a hammer driven by corresponding one of eighty-eight keys, and a photo sensor is provided in the vicinity of and also positioned to...
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5107748 |
Touch-response tone controller unit for an electronic musical instrument
In construction of an electronic musical instrument having plural musical tone controllers such as keys, push buttons and an expression pedal unit, a number of pulses are generated depending on the...
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5085119 |
Guitar-style synthesizer-controllers
An instrument is structured as a guitar and control-box incorporating electronic circuitry to control an external electronic synthesizer and electronic sampling instruments via a conventional...
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5012715 |
Sensor for an automatic piano player apparatus
A sensor arrangement for an automatic piano player apparatus is provided. The sensor arrangement includes a plurality of switches which are operatively associated with a rotatable shutter in the...
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5012086 |
Optoelectronic pickup for stringed instruments
An optoelectronic pickup for providing an electrical output signal that is a linear representation of the relative displaced position of a mounted string. A collimated light source enables high...
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4993308 |
Device for breath control of apparatus for sound or visual information
An air responsive control forms the basis for a mouth-blown device having a series of pipes in side-by-side relation into which the user blows or sucks. Signals are produced to operate apparatus...
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4974482 |
Keyboard for an electronic music system
An electronic keyboard system according to the present invention has a plurality of key sensor units associated with the keys, respectively, and the key sensor units are paired to form a plurality...
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4947726 |
Electronic musical instrument and string deviation sensor arrangement therefor
An electronic musical instrument having (a) a body portion, (b) a plurality of fret members located at predetermined spacings on the body portion, (c) a string stretched over the body portion, (d)...
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4815353 |
Photonic pickup for musical instrument
A photoelectric transducer is provided for musical instruments to pick up musical tones so that they may be amplified, transcribed, resynthesized, or recorded. A light source, such as a light...
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4804323 |
Music candle
A melody producing candle in which an Integrated Circuit (IC) placed within the candle is activated upon kindling of the wick to produce music. The candle stops playing music once the flame is put...
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4736662 |
Optical sensor for sensing displacement speed or displacement of a moveable element in musical instrument
In an optical sensor for displacement speed/displacement of a movable element in a musical instrument, light emitted from a light-emitting element is guided to a sensor head through a transmission...
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